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...I spent too much of my youth enraptured by alchemical texts and hermetic literature...
>>8237633
we've all been there
>>8237633
>33
Nice dubs
Totality: the unconscious and conscious joined
...purity and liberation...
Theres nothing hermetic about a slut with an ourabous tattoo, thats normie as fuck
We make fun of fanfiction because most of it is legitimately terrible. However, isn't fanfiction as a medium a legitimate response to modern copyright law?
For most of the history of literature, nobody could claim exclusive ownership of the stories they wrote, the concepts they developed, or the characters they created. This meant that most authors were poor as shit. However, it also meant that those stories, concepts, and characters could freely be taken up and reexamined by different authors, not to mention by artists, playwrights, and musicians. Consider the Arthurian...
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>>8237601
Yes.
>demeaning the artistic merit of fanfiction
Fanfiction is the literal manifestation of the New Sincerity movement.
hi female/uk here I really need help with my religious studies homework to research and explain some words it's pretty easy my kik is @lynchednigger if you're interested
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>>8237600
The memes feel like they're getting more subtle, but they still seem painfully obvious
Why didn't he just make Scientology a sci-fi novel?
>>8237589
because of the IRS
He just made it a long one, with cos-play.
>>8237589
Because he knew starting a cult was a better way to rip off pathetic fags and mindless bimbos who'd fork over their cash to anyone with a modicum of charisma. Other than a few hiccups, you really can't argue with the results either.
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I am a EE. I am not an avid reader, i have my moments when i read five to six books in a row but then i go back to my engineer routine and i don't read much at all. The thing is: i have an incredible urge to create something fantastic, to use my imagination / creativity, but i feel paralyzed by fear of not being good enough, by the fear of not having dedicated enough time to reading, fear of knowing how many people are out there who have spend thousands of hours mastering their craft. I need to create something, express myself but i am not an artist, i don't have the...
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Stop posting shit and create something already, Jesus.
bro im writing a lesbian ghost story, as long as you're making something you'll only get better. write something you want other people to know about, and do it as much as you can
>I am an EE
a what?
If I’m being completely honest, what is real?
The silent pause, the ticking of the clock. The sound of a train in the background.
These are real, because I perceive them to be. I hear them. If I traveled enough, I would be able to see the train. See the clock. I could touch it. Feel its vibrations as it rumbles down the tracks.
I understand now that my brain creates reality. I know that you do. I know that an entity that can be conceptualized as “God” exists within my mind.
However, I am not my mind. I am nothing. I am.
That’s all...
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I love you. What does that mean? It clearly means something deep, something profound. It’s clearly a feeling, some sort of higher geometry. Space, and time, are these structures. They are static and unchanging. So why do I see change?
Change is experience. Change is everything. I say I like changes. I say I want change. But do I really? You have to realize that everything you wanted is here, right in front of you. You would know that if you had the proper memories. But you don’t, and you wanted that too. You wanted to forget about what happened and how it used to...
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>>8237496
Your lips around my cock, my short breaths. The sound of saliva dripping on the ground.
These are real, because I perceive them to be. I feel your luscious mouth tenderly massaging my manly member, I know this is happening, because I have received many fellatio´s before.
My rectum is tensing up as I read this post, becoming aware of what I was ignorant of just a second before. But what does a second mean, if that second is not spent on having a twink playing with your balls?
Is my brain playing a trick on me?
>>8237577
Perfect
Thoughts?
Shit
>138 voters
>100 books
in other words, at least 62 out of 100 titles had only one person mention them
>muh white male bias
Discarded.
Requesting /comfy/ books.
I can't contribute because pic related is pretty much the closest I've ever come to reading something comfy. inb4 >>>/his/, I'm looking for literature.
Ludwig is so based and crazy.
Try:
>A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
>Kim - Rudyard Kipling
>Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
>The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
>Saki (aka HH Munro)
The Golden Ass
City of Saints and Madmen
Just recently read "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the sentimental short story made me feel really comfy.
Immediately after finishing it I wanted to find a full length book that will feel the same way or even better, but last for more than a fleeting moment.
Appreciate all suggestions.
1. Read "The Ridiculous Man" (short story) also by Dostoevsky
2. Rad "Notes From The Underground" by Dostoevsky (novella)
3. Read "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun
4. Read "No Longer Human" by Omazu Dazai
5. Rad "Welcome to the NHK" by [Japanese author]
All short. All comfy.
>>8237463
Thanks, already in the middle of "Notes From The Underground".
Just wondering, how is "No Longer Human" compared to "Run Melos" (if you read it ofc, also by Dazai)
Lastly, I have started with the NHK anime a while back, but i dropped it because, well I don't even know... So should I pick up the anime again or is the novel much better?
>>8237482
>So should I pick up the anime again or is the novel much better?
I am not the guy you are replying to but the Welcome to the NHK is a very good novel. The anime absolutely pales in comparison. It also removes certain taboo content and makes weird little arbitrary changes that do nothing but significantly lessen the impact of the work.
IC: Can you talk a little bit about the effect of Marx on your thinking and how you came to start reading him?
Thomas Piketty: Marx?
IC: Yeah.
TP: I never managed really to read it. I mean I don’t know if you’ve tried to read it. Have you tried?
IC: Some of his essays, but not the economics work.
TP: The Communist Manifesto of 1848 is a short and strong piece. Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read and for me it was not very influential.
IC: Because your book, obviously with the title, it seemed like you were tipping your...
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>>8237333
He looks like one of the Thunderbirds characters.
>>8237333
Piketty is a hack, his works were literally found to have wrong data in them, ie. falsified research.
So much about that bumblefuck.
>>8239138
He had a single transcription error other than that the data points that were criticized were clearly a matter of taste. More importantly the difference between the two proposed choices had no discernible effect on the validity of the trends.
Do you think he deeply regretted what he did? Was he just fooling himself in the end?
I doubt it. He got his revenge and gets to bang his slave princess so what would he regret? Not getting back together with Mercedes?
Aesthetic Anime is Aesthetic
Did Dorian do anything wrong?
>>8237296
He did kill that guy.
>>8237296
In the sense 4chan uses the phrase? No.
Actually? Yes.
Of course he did.
I just finished reading this masterpiece. Now what is the best film adaptation of this? Preference given to those who have read it.
>>8237270
I doubt it's been filmed well yet.
>>8237270
>YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE MALE!
>>8237270
the Gregory Peck one is kinda slow and the special effects are very dated
the William Hurt one is full of extraneous stuff where some hack screenwriter decided to improve upon Melville and add stuff
only seen the two and they were both shit
Thoughts ?
Homesteading the Noosphere
an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open-source software development
none, but tell us
>>8237257
>open source
>having any analogues in societies before the informational age
Next you will say that piracy is theft.
>>>/tv/71598652
Episode "Homesteading the Noosphere” explicitly stated by the writer to be a reference to the concept called … Noosphere.
Is there any other place to lurk to talk about literature than /lit/?
Do you guys lurk other forums/image boards?
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